How Many Calories are you Drinking?????

Some days its zero others it is 30. But I love water enhancers...I am slowly trying to ween them out too just cause I dont like to consume lots chemically created sweeteners or those new ones with little known side effects....just read that truvia can cause reproductive issues....what with aspartame causing brain bleeding...I guess it is best to go with moderation on real sugar or use honey.... I dont know if this happens to anyone else but I find after I cut sugar out that the smell of sweet from the candy aisle in the grocery store is almost overwhelming!!!!

I really don't drink any calories. If I'm not drinking water, I'll have diet coke, and I don't drink tea or coffee. When it comes to alcohol, however ... these can make a huge difference! Especially if you drink cider like I do :ohwell: So no alcohol for me while I'm trying to straighten things out!

Instead of sugar in your tea/coffee, why don't you try sweetener? That'll cut out a huge chunk of calories throughout the day.

Drinking calories are the sneakiest, and I used to not count them until I looked up the actual numbers. I really, really like craft beer. We also homebrew our own. One of our beer batches in November had a lot of grain and turned out to have quite a bit of alcohol. The more alcohol a beer has, the more calories. We estimated somewhere around 300 for a 12 oz bottle. I also like IPA's which range from around 200 plus or minus 30. So, if I'm hanging out with some friends on a Saturday and have 2-4 of those beers over say 3-5 hours. it can easily be anywhere from 400 calories and up. Clear liquor like rum has about 97 calories in 1.5 oz of 80-proof. Spiced rum is even higher I think.

So, yes, if you're not counting them, you could be consuming way more calories for the day than you think.

I realized that during the week when I am on track I only drink water and coffee. My coffee has 5 calories per cup and about 90 calories of sugar. That is 95 calories twice a day, 190 calories a day out of 1200 calorie day that seems like a lot. That is about 16% of my daily calories. I am just wondering how many calories most people are drinking???

I drink coffee w/ creamer and water most of the time. Or hot tea. My coffee has 70-95 cals a cup depending on if I use 2 or 3 tbsp of creamer. I am trying to cut it back a bit, but it is my one indulgence!! I mostly only have a cup of coffee a day, tho. Hot tea I will either drink w/out sweetener or add like 1/2 a pack of truvia to. So I am ok there.

I would say 300-600 cals per day. I usually have a protein shake or 2 and a beer and sometimes some milk.

Usually zero. I only drink water and zero calorie green tea. The exception is if I go out drinking - 4 shots of vodka is over 400 calories. I always try to excercise in the morning if I know I'm going to be drinking that night!

A lot. At least two protein shakes with whole milk. Three cups of coffee. Two tees. Three nights a week 5-7 beers. Adjust how much I eat based on calories burned throughout the day to stay under calorie limit.

I've really tried to cut back on the calories from drinks. I use to drink 1 Mt. Dew M-F at work (instead of coffee) but once I started adding it all up, I've tried cutting back. When I go out for lunch/dinner, I'll get unsweet tea.

I haven't been logging any non-alcoholic beverages, maybe I should be :ohwell: but I average about 5 - 6 cups of black coffee a day and then soda water with fresh lime juice (as I don't particuarly enjoy drinking water), according to most of the replies so far there are little to no calories in black coffee so looks like that's the way forward.

Well, sunday's don't count for me since I know it's destructive. It's either football beer day or drunken sunday brunch, I drink probably 1000 calories of drink. :drinker: (but I try to run lots before and afterwards)

My normal though is about 50 calories per day for my coffee creamer or skim milk. I try to limit it to 2 cups to keep this down.

I drink mostly water, sometimes drink juice at lunch time if my mouth tastes funny how is coffee working for everyone though? i'm not a fan of black coffee but i guess it's an acquired taste if its necessary.

I have around 3 coffees with skimmed milk, no sugar and 1 or 2 strong teas with skimmed milk, other than that it will be sugar free drinks. Occassionally I will have a latte or posh coffee. And at the weekend I will have wine, between 1 and 2 bottles :blushing:

zero... I ust drink water and don't drink anything else. I learned a long time ago that beverages add empty calories. Water is a big key to ur weightloss success.

I drink nothing but water, other than smoothies. I try to save my calories for my food.